Re: GS/OS Creator/Type listings for CDROM

[Jay <Someone@somewhere.com>]

Jon,

Thanks for the suggestions, but I cannot enter these characters into
the map file for MKHybrid.  I tried '$70 $B3 $00 $00' for the .S16
file but no go.

There must be a text conversion that doesn't use control characters.
If I use Creator = 'PDOS' and Type = 'APPL' then it gets recognized
on the //gs as a Macintosh Application, but won't let me launch it.

The Macintosh has over 30,000 entries in the Creator/Type database at:
http://www.angelfire.com/il/szekely/index.html

I wonder if any of these are Apple II and/or Apple IIgs specific?
They are all in standard text.

Anyone else have any advice?

--> Jay


Jon Bettencourt wrote:
> 
> In article <394FAAF0.26D1D55@somewhere.com>, Jay <Someone@somewhere.com> wrote:
> 
> > Greetings!
> >
> > I'm burning a few CDROMs with Apple II software on them from a PC.
> > I am using MKHybrid and it allows me to state the creator and type
> > of files based on their extension.  Here is what I have so far:
> 
> For some of these it's hard determining the correct type because the
> correct type often includes control characters and 8-bit characters.
> 
> >        .tif     Raw     '8BIM'    'TIFF'   "Photoshop TIFF image"
> >        .hqx     Ascii   'BnHq'    'TEXT'   "BinHex file"
> >        .doc     RAW     'MSWD'    'WDBN'   "Word file"
> >        .mov     Raw     'TVOD'    'MooV'   "QuickTime Movie"
> >        .shk     RAW     '????'    '????'   "Shrinkit Archive"
> 
> That should have a creator of 'pdos' and a type of $70 $E0 $80 $02
> 
> >        .bxy     Ascii   'BnHq'    'TEXT'   "BinHex file"
> >        .bsc     Ascii   'BnHq'    'TEXT'   "BinHex file"
> 
> First of all, these aren't BinHex files. BXY isn't ASCII, it's raw binary.
> BXY should be treated like SHK and BSC should be treated like text.
> 
> >        .dsk     RAW     'B2TR'    'DSK5'   "5.25" Image File"
> >        .do      RAW     'B2TR'    'DOS3'   "Dos 3.3 Image File"
> >        .po      RAW     'B2TR'    'PDOS'   "Prodos Image File"
> >        .2mg     RAW     'B2TR'    '2IMG'   "800K Image File"
> >        .nib     RAW     'B2TR'    'NIBL'   "Nibble Image File"
> 
> This seems in order.
> 
> >        .sea     RAW     'PDOS'    'PSYS'   "Self Extracting Archive"
> 
> OK, if you're sure.
> 
> >        .readme  Ascii   'PDOS'    'TEXT'   "Text file"
> >        .txt     Ascii   'PDOS'    'TEXT'   "Text file"
> >        .info    Ascii   'PDOS'    'TEXT'   "Text file"
> >        .zip     RAW     'ZIP '    'ZIP '   "Zip file"
> >        .exe     RAW     'PDOS'    'PSYS'   "Prodos 8 Executable"
> >        *        RAW     'PDOS'    'PSYS'   "Prodos 8 Executable"
> 
> I don't think you should treat just any file as a ProDOS program, but if
> you want to...
> 
> > I have searched and searched for more information, but I still need
> > the Creator/Types for Prodos 16 Executable and GS/OS executable.
> 
> ProDOS 16 executables and GS/OS executables are the same. Try this:
> 
>          .s16     RAW     'pdos'  $70 $B3 $00 $00  "GS/OS Executable"
> 
> If MKHybrid doesn't let you type in nulls and control characters and
> characters above 126 you're kind of in trouble.
> 
> Be sure to add just plain .bin
> 
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